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J. H. LOSO. COMBINED WRENCH AND OIL CAN.

No. 409,476. Patented Aug. 20, 1889.

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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO IVALTER S. MAXIVELL, OFSAME' PLACE.

COMBINED WRENCH AND OIL CAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 409,476, dated August 20, 1889.

Application filed July 81, 1888. $eria1No. 281,605- (No model.)

' r o vehicle'wheels.

My invention comprises a wrench of crank form, having the handle of the crank provided with an oil-receptacle opening into a passage through such handle to serve as a spout for the oil-can.

It also comprises certain novel features of construction and combination, which are hereinafter more fully described and set forth.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention.

Figure l is a side view of my combined wrench and oil-can. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal mid-section of the same. Fig. 3 is a View looking toward the bottom of the can. Fig.

2 5 4 is a cross-section at 00 on, Fig. 1, and an elevation of the head of the adjustable wrench;

Fig. 5 is an end view of the knob of the handle. Fig. 6 is a cross-section on line 1 y, Fig. 1.

A is the arm of the wrench.

o 13 is one jaw of the wrench, fixed upon one end of the arm A. O is the other jaw movably mounted on the arm A and jaw I being secured thereto by the screw D and the lug E, which projects from the arm A and fits 5 into the groove, F in the arm Ii, projecting from the jaw G. The other end of the arm A is provided with a handle G, which is provided with a screw-nipple II, upon which the oil receptacle or can I is screwed. A passage J extends from the end of the nipple II along the inside of the handle to an opening in an oil-spout K, so that oil may pass from the can through the crank-handle and the spout K the same as it would through. the spout of an ordinary oil-cau. The oil-spout K projects from the crank-handle G approximately in line with the arm A, and is curved to form, in

connection with the arm A, a hook by which the wrench and can may be hung up. The inner bend of this hook is faced with a rubher pad M, which is set in a recess N. The pad may be secured in the recess with cement; but the square ends and curved form of the recess will tend to retain the rubber without the use of cement. This pad is to prevent the wrench from marring the paintof the vehicle when the wrench is hung on the I vehicle.

The drawings show two passage-ways for the oil. The one marked J, leading to the end of the handle, is closed by a screw-plug O, which may be removed in case it is desired todischarge the oil through the end of the handle instead of through the spout K.

The manner of using my improved wrench 6 5 is as follows: When it is desired to oil the axle of a vehicle-wh eel, the head of the wrench is placed upon the nut, which holds the wheel in place, and is secured thereto by turning the screw D. The wrench may then be turn ed as a crank, of which G is the handle. \Vhen the nut is unscrewed from the axle, the wrench may be hung upon any projecting part of the vehicle until the wheel may be removed. Then the wrench is again taken in the hand, and the oil is made to flow out of the spout upon the axle. Then the wrench is again hung up while the wheel is being replaced, after which the nut is replaced upon the axle, using the wrench as a crank to turn the nut. hen the nut is firmly seated, the screw is loosened and the wrench removed from the nut.

New, having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Lot ters Patent, is-

In a combined wrench and oiler, the handle G, provided with a longitudinal oil-passage J and a lateral oil-passage .I, in combination with the oil-receptacle secured to the handle. 9

JOHN II. LOSO. lVitnesses:

JAMES R. TOWNSEND, WALTER S. MAXWELL. 

